http://www.hornbeckboats.com/index.htm The maker is Peter Hornbeck and he lives in the Adirondacks where we used to live. It is 10'5" and weighs 16 lbs. It is a wonderful canoe and great for poking around those small Adirondack lakes. It is based on a 1890's era canoe called the Sairy Gamp designed and made by John Ruston. The canoe and a famous trip in a chain of lakes in the Adirondacks was serialized in Field and Stream magazine of that era by a man named George Washington Sears who went by the name of Nessmuk. I just love that little boat and if I got serious about canoeing again, I would get one of Peter's graphite canoes. Go for it and build that canoe. I don't know if the original Sairy Gamp was a lapstrake, but it was light and meant to be carried. I saw the Sairy camp in the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake and I remember ribs--but I don't know much about wooden boat making. There are some serious wooden canoes, guide boats and other wooden craft in that museum. Visit there if you can. If you build that canoe you are a serious woodworker! I would love to show you my Hornbeck. I have had some wonderful times with it. Jerry and I are going to the Moraine View Rally this weekend in central Illinois and I plan to take it. I am over my medical issues that kept me from canoing for two years and I can't wait to get back out there. What's a yak? I thought a yak was an animal in the Himalayas.
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